The Disastrous Situation in Haiti

Excerpts from the Paper

The beginning:

The Disastrous Situation in Haiti
Despite the technological and social progress human beings have made on this earth, we are still very much at the mercy of Mother Nature, as natural disasters frequently destroy infrastructures across the globe. One of the worst disasters to strike in the past year was a devastating earthquake in Haiti.
As Randal C. Archibold for the New York Times reported, a “massive earthquake struck Haiti just before 5 p.m. on Jan. 12, about 10 miles southwest of Port-au-Prince, the country's capital”. The extent of the damage was huge, as a “study by the Inter-American Development Bank estimated that the total cost of the disaster was between $7.2 billion to $13.2 billion, based on a death toll from 200,000 to...